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  About Hospice
  Alzheimer's Disease (and Other Brain Diseases) and Hospice Care

  Debunking the Myths of Hospice
  Emotional Assurance
  Hospice - An Untapped Resource for EAPs
  Hospice Care or Palliative Care: What's the Right Care for Me?

  Hospice and the News
  Hospice: Supporting Veterans in Their Final Battle (PDF)

  Talking about Hospice: Tips for Professional Geriatric Care Managers
  The Medicare Hospice Benefit: A Good Fit with Managed Care

  Veterans: An Underserved Population (PDF)

  What to Expect and Demand From a Good Hospice (PDF)
  What's Your Hospice IQ? (PDF)
  Click the link above to view a non-printable version of What's Your Hospice IQ?.
  This brochure is also available in hard  copy for $1.50 each. To order, click here)
 
What's your Hospice IQ? - Spanish Version (PDF)

  Click the link above to view a non-printable version of What's Your Hospice IQ?
  in Spanish. This brochure is also available in hard copy for $1.50 each. To order,
  click here.)
  

  Advance Care Planning/Advance Directives
  Medical Issues to be Considered in Advance Care Planning

 

  Caregiving
  Alzheimer's Disease and Grieving Caregivers

  Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: Beneficial or Harmful?
  Caregiving at Life's End

  Coma and Persistent Vegetative State: An Exploration of Terms
  Providing Care at Home: Can I Do It?
 

  Grief at Work
  Death at the Worksite  
  Laughing REALLY Matters
  Managing Stress for Hospice Professionals
  Responding to the Grieving Client
  The Bereaved Employee - Returning to Work
  The Grieving Employee (PDF)
  Unresolved Grief Can Be Costly (PDF)

  Grieving Children
  After a Tragedy: What Kids Can Do
  All About Me (PDF)
  Guidelines for Parents to Help Their Children Through Grief
  Guidelines for Parents to Help Their Children Through Grief-Spanish Version
  Guidelines for Planning a Children's Funeral
  Katrina: Taking in Evacuated Students after the Hurricane
  Katrina: What Can Parents & Caregivers Do in the Hurricane's
  Aftermath?

  Military Kids: Responding to Their Grief
  Our Loved One Died Serving Our Country (PDF)
  Reaching Out to Grieving Students (PDF)
  Remembering You (PDF)

  Responding to a School Crisis

  The Grieving Teen
  What to Do During a Time of National Terror
  When Someone You Love Can't Come Home (PDF)
  When Somebody You Love Has AIDS (PDF)
  When Somebody You Love Has Cancer (PDF)
  When the Firefighter You Love Has Died (PDF)
  When the Police Officer You Love Has Died (PDF)
  When Somebody I Love Has Died (PDF)
  When Somebody You Love Has Died (PDF)
  Writing a Condolence Note to a Grieving Child or Adolescent


  Working Through Grief
  Anticipating a Parent's Death
  Anticipatory Grief Symptoms: What's the Big Deal?
  Anticipatory Grief Work: What Is It and How Do You Do It?

  Ashes to Ashes... One Family's Experience with Cremation
  He Knows He's About to Die: Visiting a Friend in a Hospice (PDF)
  Helping a Grieving Parent
  Helping Your Bereaved Friend
  Helping Yourself Through Grief
  In Times of Stress: Finding Links to the Past
  Coping with Holidays and Family Celebrations (PDF)
  Mexico's Annual Mockery of Death
  Putting the "Memory" Back Into Memorial Day

  Remember Your Loved One with a Memory Cookbook
  Secrets Discovered After a Death
  The Grief of Grandparents

  The Sudden Death of a Child: A Mother's Tool Kit

  When Your Pet Dies
  Writing a Condolence Note

  Writing a Condolence Note After a Pet Death
  You Know You Are Getting Better When...

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If you are interested in any other articles on hospice and grief issues, written by the American Hospice Foundation, please call or write us and we can send you a free copy:

Gerontology Institute Update on Aging Spring/Summer 1999
The Medicare Hospice Benefit: A Good Fit with Managed Care
by Naomi Naierman


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